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Fuck You Reloaded

Dec 10, 2009 13:15

Fuck You and Fuck Your Fucking Thesis

Why I Will Not Participate in Trans StudiesDear Mr. or Ms. Grad Student, I am sorry to report that I will not participate in your study as a data point. I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish. I don't trust you. I don't like you. I don't care if you succeed. In fact, I kind of think you suck ( Read more... )

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tagonist December 10 2009, 21:55:55 UTC

Repost at will! Creative commons and all that.

sophiism December 11 2009, 00:01:24 UTC

Reposting

Frustrations of a Researcher zoebrain December 13 2009, 23:06:57 UTC

It's live swimming through treacle trying to get medical data on Trans people. We know far too little about long-term effects of HRT, what are optimum doses, which estrogenic molecules are dangerous, when to switch...

So many get treatment, get a new life, and disappear off the radar. Are they OK? Are the dead? We don't know. And while we don't know, we can't fight the calls for the banning of surgery as "not of proven effectiveness" so well. Yes, there are some studies. But we need more.

These "squeakings of the laboratory mice" are useful from a clinical sense. They express *why* we have problems obtaining co-operation from experimental subjects. We need to figure out how we can ameliorate these concerns so we can do our work. Oh yes, and did I mention these are human beings we're talking about? That maybe they just have a point? That we are scientists, but also have a certain responsibility to be at least minimally human too?

And yes, some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time, research but also campaign for human rights

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher tagonist December 14 2009, 02:23:46 UTC

You touch on something I've been working on, as an essay, since 2003- the myth of the stealth horde. What you claim, that people get treatment, get a new life, and disappear off the radar is a pervasive but horribly untrue idea in my experience. I've been out for fourteen years, disappeared now and again, kept in touch with as many friends as I could and worked extensively as a (non-credentialed) social worker for various non-profits. I've watched a lot of people transition, possibly hundreds ( ... )

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher zoebrain December 14 2009, 05:01:37 UTC

Maybe so - but how do we know ( ... )

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher tagonist December 14 2009, 14:17:24 UTC

The study was by Anne Lawrence who yes, I know, is problematic as a political advocate but at least understands statistics. Basically she aggregated all the data from studies not done by surgeons. She would have excluded Suporn's, the one that you mention, for hot, flaming conflict of interest and I would exclude it too. Even proceeding on cartesian lines, nerve flaps with isolated blood supplies are fragile as hell, and (minimum) 94% survival is a sketchy, sketchy claim ( ... )

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher iphisol December 14 2009, 20:51:58 UTC

I know that you have seniority, but this last paragraph has been my experience, too.

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher tagonist December 14 2009, 21:21:16 UTC

Right? I feel so fucking old...

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher anonymous December 31 2009, 10:03:25 UTC

I'm not sure *precisely* what you mean by the term, but I suspect that I am part of the "stealth horde", maybe ( ... )

Re: Frustrations of a Researcher tagonist December 14 2009, 14:19:20 UTC

Oh and also, I can think of at least a dozen post-ops I've met in support groups. My feet dont look like that!

(and my whole point is, we all have everything in common with "most there" we just tell ourselves we don't so we can continue to believe that everything will go better for us)

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